Tracy Kidder -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of a New Machine and the extraordinary national bestseller House -- spent nine months in Mrs. Zajac's fifth-grade classroom in the depressed "Flats" of Holyoke, Massachusetts. For an entire year he lived among twenty schoolchildren and their indomitable, compassionate teacher -- sharings their joys, their catastrophes, and their small but essential triumphs. As a result, he has written a revealing, remarkably poignant account of education in America . . . and his most memorable, emotionally charged, and important book to date.
Reviews:
Sorchah (USA: IL) (2007/04/01): I could not finish this book it was so boring. Every single page is exactly like the other ones--boring. Nicholas (France) (2008/05/21): Amazing! :-) I can't imagine a boring word that Tracy Kidder ever wrote. He is top of the list of my favourite authors. This one gives you a real feel for the world of teachers and kids and reads, as all Kidder's books, like a novel. Jenny S. (USA: IL) (2014/10/20): I loved it, as I love all the Kidder books so far. I thought it was not boring at all, and even laughed and cried while reading.
